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One sometimes gets the feeling, that there are no secrets anymore and no insider-information to be shared. The Internet left us with no doubts and lack of knowledge. But still there are some lomo-locations, that are truly mysterious and barely to be found otherwise. There is a spot in Armenia, which I passed by on a recent trip. It is situated around a city called Astarak, directly aside to the highway leading to the capital Yerevan.
There was no plan to go there but the sudden encounter with it really made my day. Words have great meaning to me and I guess to most others. So why not celebrate the letters, that create words. What I like about foreign languages as well, is, that their special Sounds and letters are often very graphic, more in the sense of a picture than as a sound. And that makes it kind of Art or Graffiti, therefore the field of letters is one of a kind street art.
The Armenian Alphabet gains much significance through the fact that Armenia was the first country to establish Christianity as state-religion in 301 a.D. Adjacently they found a special branch of the Armenian church and therefore the Armenian bible was one of the first not to be in Latin but in the native tongue. The first traces of the Armenian Alphabet were found in Documents from the early fifth century. Looking at the letter of the field this all gives some spiritual attitude to the scene. It provokes Doubles with the LC-A+ and hence the weather often is on the good side, too, everything just fits the mood.
So now back to the beginning and the question of secrets and myths. Once we left the place I already forgot about the directions and where it was at. No wonder, I was just introduced to the country and the roads were unknown for me. I relied on my research in the net, but that wasn’t that smart. The Internet is not so well developed in Armenia and I found maybe two pages, after weeks of research, that referred to this site. What I know, that is was just build in the beginning of our century to commemorate the Armenian History and to be proud of something. There is also the plan to create an open-air library in the field. With the texts and poems of the greatest Armenian poets. Very good idea, I think. To find the spot you must eat a lot of kilometers by car. Better grab one in Ashtarak and go and go and go!
Links: http://www.armtown.com/news/en/azg/20050602/2005060205/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_alphabet
One sometimes gets the feeling, that there are no secrets anymore and no insider-information to be shared. The Internet left us with no doubts and lack of knowledge. But still there are some lomo-locations, that are truly mysterious and barely to be found otherwise. There is a spot in Armenia, which I passed by on a recent trip. It is situated around a city called Astarak, directly aside to the highway leading to the capital Yerevan.
There was no plan to go there but the sudden encounter with it really made my day. Words have great meaning to me and I guess to most others. So why not celebrate the letters, that create words. What I like about foreign languages as well, is, that their special Sounds and letters are often very graphic, more in the sense of a picture than as a sound. And that makes it kind of Art or Graffiti, therefore the field of letters is one of a kind street art.
The Armenian Alphabet gains much significance through the fact that Armenia was the first country to establish Christianity as state-religion in 301 a.D. Adjacently they found a special branch of the Armenian church and therefore the Armenian bible was one of the first not to be in Latin but in the native tongue. The first traces of the Armenian Alphabet were found in Documents from the early fifth century. Looking at the letter of the field this all gives some spiritual attitude to the scene. It provokes Doubles with the LC-A+ and hence the weather often is on the good side, too, everything just fits the mood.
So now back to the beginning and the question of secrets and myths. Once we left the place I already forgot about the directions and where it was at. No wonder, I was just introduced to the country and the roads were unknown for me. I relied on my research in the net, but that wasn’t that smart. The Internet is not so well developed in Armenia and I found maybe two pages, after weeks of research, that referred to this site. What I know, that is was just build in the beginning of our century to commemorate the Armenian History and to be proud of something. There is also the plan to create an open-air library in the field. With the texts and poems of the greatest Armenian poets. Very good idea, I think. To find the spot you must eat a lot of kilometers by car. Better grab one in Ashtarak and go and go and go!
Links: http://www.armtown.com/news/en/azg/20050602/2005060205/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_alphabet
One sometimes gets the feeling, that there are no secrets anymore and no insider-information to be shared. The Internet left us with no doubts and lack of knowledge. But still there are some lomo-locations, that are truly mysterious and barely to be found otherwise. There is a spot in Armenia, which I passed by on a recent trip. It is situated around a city called Astarak, directly aside to the highway leading to the capital Yerevan.
There was no plan to go there but the sudden encounter with it really made my day. Words have great meaning to me and I guess to most others. So why not celebrate the letters, that create words. What I like about foreign languages as well, is, that their special Sounds and letters are often very graphic, more in the sense of a picture than as a sound. And that makes it kind of Art or Graffiti, therefore the field of letters is one of a kind street art.
The Armenian Alphabet gains much significance through the fact that Armenia was the first country to establish Christianity as state-religion in 301 a.D. Adjacently they found a special branch of the Armenian church and therefore the Armenian bible was one of the first not to be in Latin but in the native tongue. The first traces of the Armenian Alphabet were found in Documents from the early fifth century. Looking at the letter of the field this all gives some spiritual attitude to the scene. It provokes Doubles with the LC-A+ and hence the weather often is on the good side, too, everything just fits the mood.
So now back to the beginning and the question of secrets and myths. Once we left the place I already forgot about the directions and where it was at. No wonder, I was just introduced to the country and the roads were unknown for me. I relied on my research in the net, but that wasn’t that smart. The Internet is not so well developed in Armenia and I found maybe two pages, after weeks of research, that referred to this site. What I know, that is was just build in the beginning of our century to commemorate the Armenian History and to be proud of something. There is also the plan to create an open-air library in the field. With the texts and poems of the greatest Armenian poets. Very good idea, I think. To find the spot you must eat a lot of kilometers by car. Better grab one in Ashtarak and go and go and go!
Links: http://www.armtown.com/news/en/azg/20050602/2005060205/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_alphabet
Armenia is one of the countries, that are so much in transition that it is hard to make a proper evaluation. it is a very interesting caucasion country with a buzzling metropol of yerevan and a whole lot of nothing in between. the weather in spring until fal is rather nice and the winter hard. there are enough remains of the soviet times and that makes it quite exotic. on the other hand there are grim cities with a high unemployment rate and no future. after all a country to be discovered before others will do it.
One sometimes gets the feeling, that there are no secrets anymore and no insider-information to be shared. The Internet left us with no doubts and lack of knowledge. But still there are some lomo-locations, that are truly mysterious and barely to be found otherwise. There is a spot in Armenia, which I passed by on a recent trip. It is situated around a city called Astarak, directly aside to the highway leading to the capital Yerevan.
There was no plan to go there but the sudden encounter with it really made my day. Words have great meaning to me and I guess to most others. So why not celebrate the letters, that create words. What I like about foreign languages as well, is, that their special Sounds and letters are often very graphic, more in the sense of a picture than as a sound. And that makes it kind of Art or Graffiti, therefore the field of letters is one of a kind street art.
The Armenian Alphabet gains much significance through the fact that Armenia was the first country to establish Christianity as state-religion in 301 a.D. Adjacently they found a special branch of the Armenian church and therefore the Armenian bible was one of the first not to be in Latin but in the native tongue. The first traces of the Armenian Alphabet were found in Documents from the early fifth century. Looking at the letter of the field this all gives some spiritual attitude to the scene. It provokes Doubles with the LC-A+ and hence the weather often is on the good side, too, everything just fits the mood.
So now back to the beginning and the question of secrets and myths. Once we left the place I already forgot about the directions and where it was at. No wonder, I was just introduced to the country and the roads were unknown for me. I relied on my research in the net, but that wasn’t that smart. The Internet is not so well developed in Armenia and I found maybe two pages, after weeks of research, that referred to this site. What I know, that is was just build in the beginning of our century to commemorate the Armenian History and to be proud of something. There is also the plan to create an open-air library in the field. With the texts and poems of the greatest Armenian poets. Very good idea, I think. To find the spot you must eat a lot of kilometers by car. Better grab one in Ashtarak and go and go and go!
Links: http://www.armtown.com/news/en/azg/20050602/2005060205/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_alphabet
One sometimes gets the feeling, that there are no secrets anymore and no insider-information to be shared. The Internet left us with no doubts and lack of knowledge. But still there are some lomo-locations, that are truly mysterious and barely to be found otherwise. There is a spot in Armenia, which I passed by on a recent trip. It is situated around a city called Astarak, directly aside to the highway leading to the capital Yerevan.
There was no plan to go there but the sudden encounter with it really made my day. Words have great meaning to me and I guess to most others. So why not celebrate the letters, that create words. What I like about foreign languages as well, is, that their special Sounds and letters are often very graphic, more in the sense of a picture than as a sound. And that makes it kind of Art or Graffiti, therefore the field of letters is one of a kind street art.
The Armenian Alphabet gains much significance through the fact that Armenia was the first country to establish Christianity as state-religion in 301 a.D. Adjacently they found a special branch of the Armenian church and therefore the Armenian bible was one of the first not to be in Latin but in the native tongue. The first traces of the Armenian Alphabet were found in Documents from the early fifth century. Looking at the letter of the field this all gives some spiritual attitude to the scene. It provokes Doubles with the LC-A+ and hence the weather often is on the good side, too, everything just fits the mood.
So now back to the beginning and the question of secrets and myths. Once we left the place I already forgot about the directions and where it was at. No wonder, I was just introduced to the country and the roads were unknown for me. I relied on my research in the net, but that wasn’t that smart. The Internet is not so well developed in Armenia and I found maybe two pages, after weeks of research, that referred to this site. What I know, that is was just build in the beginning of our century to commemorate the Armenian History and to be proud of something. There is also the plan to create an open-air library in the field. With the texts and poems of the greatest Armenian poets. Very good idea, I think. To find the spot you must eat a lot of kilometers by car. Better grab one in Ashtarak and go and go and go!
Links: http://www.armtown.com/news/en/azg/20050602/2005060205/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_alphabet
With Anca a.k.a. @ofchanceandchoice, we made with great pleasure shared a double swap. Here the first, with a #lomochrome #purple film: first exposure by Anca with his #Lomo #LC-A in Bucharest, and second exposure with my #Nikon FE in Chazelles-sur-Lyon and around the La Gimond dam lake in Grézieu-le-Marché. And the great bonus is that during my second exhibition on March 27, @andre30 came to visit me, and he is in two of the photos! A #lomomeeting on a #lomoswap is pure lomographic happiness!
I picked up a Pentax K to Canon EF mount conversion ring. It works, but the mirrors on my Canon cameras hit the little peg on the back of my 80-200 lens. Macro tube to the rescue!
